With over 120 years of experience and more than 17,000 employees in over 20 countries, Daiichi Sankyo is dedicated to discovering, developing and delivering new standards of care that improve quality of life worldwide.

In Europe we focus on two areas: Our specialty business aims to protect people from cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death in Europe. We also want to help affected patients enjoy every precious moment of life. In oncology, we strive to be a leading global pharmaceutical innovator with competitive advantages and to develop new therapies for people with cancer.

Our European headquarters are in Munich, Germany, and we have offices in 13 European countries and Canada.

• Management of cross-functional and international projects or sub-projects in the finance sector with a focus on the EU Finance Shared Services area
• Comprehensive support in the globalization of accounting activities and the development of a new global target operating model (strategy, scope, processes, activity splits, etc.) in close collaboration with the Head of EU Finance Shared Services
• Taking on the role of Project Management Office/Transformation Management Office
• Expansion of performance management including the further development and adjustment of the (end-to-end) process KPIs as well as control of internal and external stakeholders and further development of the service management approach and service contracts
• Identification, design and implementation of measures and tools to optimize, digitize and automate processes
• Analysis and optimization of the delivery model, especially with regard to the provision of services through ‘captive’ business services, outsourcing or managed services
• Selection and evaluation of required IT systems and IT tools
• Participation in the design and implementation of strategic concepts as well as in the continuous optimization of the regional/globalized accounting function and centers of excellence/shared service centers
• Carrying out workshops and process analyses, creating and coordinating process designs and process documentation (e.g. with the help of design thinking)
• Creation of deliverables and decision templates and presentation at all hierarchy levels as well as carrying out benchmarking, best practice analyzes and creation of business cases, etc.

• Very successfully completed studies in economics (economics, business administration), business informatics or a comparable degree
• Double degree, WP or an additional part-time degree or in-depth further training would be an advantage
• Several years of experience as a management consultant in a globally operating, well-known management consultancy or strategy, organizational, process or IT consultancy or from the environment of the “Big Four” auditing and consulting companies
• Profound experience in the design, implementation and further development of finance target operating models, especially in the areas of organization, “end-to-end” processes, control and delivery models as well as experience in process modeling (e.g. MS Visio, ARIS, BIC)
• Profound experience in managing international, cross-functional projects as well as design and implementation of global business service and/or shared service structures with a corresponding track record
• Experience in digitizing and automating processes with RPA; Affinity for the use and implementation of “best practice” IT systems and IT tools
• Excellent analytical-conceptual and methodical thinking as well as strong goal-image thinking coupled with a “hands-on mentality” and implementation orientation
• Excellent stakeholder management and ability to integrate the interests of various stakeholders as a moderator and “translator” and to successfully implement project goals even under time pressure and against resistance
• Excellent ability to quickly familiarize yourself with complex issues and to act and communicate convincingly and in a solution- and management-oriented manner at all levels
• Very good knowledge of MS Office and sufficient knowledge of the common SAP modules (FI/CO, MM, SD) – SAP user knowledge is an advantage, but not mandatory
• Fluent spoken and written English skills
• A very high level of initiative, willingness to innovate and creativity